When You Were a Teenager, Did Your Parents Ground You?

Earlier today, Kaitlin asked about the things you still fight about with your mom. Thankfully, it sounds like most of us have hung up our parental boxing gloves since we've become adults. But just for fun, let's revisit our angsty teen years. When you were a teenager, did your parents ever ground you?

I think my dad put me on restriction a few times during high school. Mostly, it was for breaking curfew. My friends and I would spend the day at Disneyland and we'd be having such a ball that I'd conveniently "forget" I had to be home by a certain time. Or, after school dances, my pals and I would hit up all-night diners or head to house parties. When I finally arrived home, pops was not pleased.

However, after I heard about the punishment a father in Texas doled out to his 16-year-old daughter, I was kind of surprised my dad never thought up something similar. When Robert Rausch found out his daughter, Kirstin, had friends over until the wee hours of the morning, he decided that simply grounding her wasn't enough, in fact he wanted to make this misstep a "teachable moment." To teach Kirstin a lesson, he took out an ad in the paper offering 30 hours of her babysitting services. For free! The two shared their story on The Early Show this morning:

Wow! I'm guessing Kirstin won't cross her parents again.

When you were a teenager, what things did you get in trouble for? Staying out past curfew? Grades? Were you ever grounded? What were the terms of your "sentences?" During my restrictions, I wasn't allowed to go out with friends or use the telephone.